5 years again

The 50% of all employees will need retraining to 2025

This is how concrete is the message of the World Economic Forum in its last report October 2020 about the future of work. The economic impact of the pandemic and increasing digitization also accelerate the rhythms so that we get all the batteries. There is no other if we want avoid getting a little more stale every week. Analytical thinking, innovation, active learning and complex problem solving top the list. Self-management, resilience or technology use and management move up positions as skills to pay more and more attention to.

These projections will now be released to influence the growth mindset of organizations and individuals.. Despite this, I am inclined to think that many readers will see the 2025 and they will divert their attention to heads of the academic and business fields, both public and private. They will target who they believe has the power and resources to provide solutions if we do not want to be an easy victim of machines. And look away (in time and responsibility) It also means losing many opportunities

And now, what are we going to do ?

I am not a long-term lover for the issues that affect me the most. First because I will not be eternal and second because it takes me away from my capacity for action. My reflection is often oriented to exploring what we can do for ourselves from now on, something always worth betting on. And after reading the report my recommendation is this: let's all have 5 years again. Not because the World Economic Forum point to that horizon, nor why 2025 sounds like a new medium-term opportunity, but because I invite you to think again and learn as when we were that age.

With five years we were curious boys and girls, eager for knowledge and experiences. We weren't afraid to ask, We did not consider time as a limiting and pressure factor. We always had more to gain than to lose. As it says Mª José Roldan therapeutic pedagogue and psychopedagogue, “although all children are different and each develops at a different rate, the reality is that 5 years have some skills in common and begin to develop some important for self-esteem and learning”

That self-esteem to put ourselves in value in front of technology and lifelong learning to evolve with the world are two of the skills that will most help us to be relevant.

Let's go back to being five year olds

If we accept being children again (and never stop being) we will connect with that time when we started solving abstract problems. When our opinion began to be heard and we surprised with complex questions. When we started to self-manage our feelings or develop the art of negotiation. At the age of five we were more creative, more social and we were taking our first steps in understanding the world around us.
These are critical skills if we want our world to be as we want to imagine it.

I suggest always reviewing these types of projections as an opportunity. It is useful to identify skills in which we excel and show them to the world (in our behaviors, not only in our intentions and social networks). The top 15 It also invites us to review what we can improve on and to make decisions: what conversations to have, what books to read, what courses to do, what to stop doing …

Five years is a long time if we decide to act.

So get to work, inspiration butt. Read the 136 pages of the interesting report of the WEF if it is useful to you but I also recommend taking a look at the 12 things children learn at the age of five to connect with our purest and free version. Reactivate our thirst for knowledge and especially take action (by inspiration or threat) determine our professional future and by extension that of a future world of work, eager for technology and talent in action.